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Yes, all the usual nonsense and misleading guff. She was wrong saying that someone abstained on the HoC homeopathy report. One person did vote 'no' but no one abstained. A detail perhaps, but she still got it wrong. But it's the usual tactic of attacking the messenger... Also, the 6,500 survey she lauded perhaps didn't quite say what she thinks it does.

Alan Henness

There are three fundamental questions for anyone advocating Brexit:

1. What, precisely, are the significant and tangible benefits of leaving the EU?2. What damage to the UK and its citizens is an acceptable price to pay for those benefits?3. Which ruling of the ECJ is most persuasive of the need to leave its jurisdiction?

My thoughts as well - I think there has been some agreement among homeopaths to keep hammering on that there is evidence from RCTs that it works (but they never seem to be able to cite it). Then we had the "you don't have a complete understanding" tripe. I think we've been here before re the 6500 survey; it is serially misrepresented by quacks (a bit like the Gotzsche "medicine is the 3rd biggest killer" opinion).

I wonder if HRH "Right Charlie" has intervened yet...

Steve

Quantum Theory:The branch of science with which people who know absolutely sod all about quantum theory can explain anything.

Tetenterre wrote:My thoughts as well - I think there has been some agreement among homeopaths to keep hammering on that there is evidence from RCTs that it works (but they never seem to be able to cite it). Then we had the "you don't have a complete understanding" tripe. I think we've been here before re the 6500 survey; it is serially misrepresented by quacks (a bit like the Gotzsche "medicine is the 3rd biggest killer" opinion).

I wonder if HRH "Right Charlie" has intervened yet...

I'd love to see his consultation response...

Alan Henness

There are three fundamental questions for anyone advocating Brexit:

1. What, precisely, are the significant and tangible benefits of leaving the EU?2. What damage to the UK and its citizens is an acceptable price to pay for those benefits?3. Which ruling of the ECJ is most persuasive of the need to leave its jurisdiction?

“SURELY the scentless perfume from Josie Maran (3 June) is the perfect gift for a female homeopath,” writes Dave Hulme. We’re sure there are versions pour femme and pour homme, Dave. But how to tell which is which?

Alan says that Kate Chatfield, a senior lecturer in homeopathy at the University of Central Lancashire and representative of the Society of Homeopaths, answered this very question before the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee.

Quizzed by Lord Broers on whether it was possible to distinguish between homeopathic drugs after they have been diluted, Chatfield replied: “Only by the label.”

Alan Henness

There are three fundamental questions for anyone advocating Brexit:

1. What, precisely, are the significant and tangible benefits of leaving the EU?2. What damage to the UK and its citizens is an acceptable price to pay for those benefits?3. Which ruling of the ECJ is most persuasive of the need to leave its jurisdiction?

I got another mention in the irreverent Feedback column of the New Scientist this week:

Off label

PREVIOUSLY John Cartmell suggested a cost-saving idea, that a homogeneous stock of homeopathic remedies could be labelled at the point of sale according to whatever the customer wanted to order (26 August).

Alan Henness suggests that another option would be to simply label them as confectionery. In fact, this idea has already been proposed by one manufacturer, says Alan, “when they were having some, ahem, ‘regulatory difficulties’ a few years ago“.

“Maybe they could add real ingredients to give them different flavours?” he says. Better yet, thinks Feedback, why not cut out the middleman and just sell the labels, to be attached to whatever substance the customer wishes to empower with some homeopathic potential?

Alan Henness

There are three fundamental questions for anyone advocating Brexit:

1. What, precisely, are the significant and tangible benefits of leaving the EU?2. What damage to the UK and its citizens is an acceptable price to pay for those benefits?3. Which ruling of the ECJ is most persuasive of the need to leave its jurisdiction?

1. What, precisely, are the significant and tangible benefits of leaving the EU?2. What damage to the UK and its citizens is an acceptable price to pay for those benefits?3. Which ruling of the ECJ is most persuasive of the need to leave its jurisdiction?

1. What, precisely, are the significant and tangible benefits of leaving the EU?2. What damage to the UK and its citizens is an acceptable price to pay for those benefits?3. Which ruling of the ECJ is most persuasive of the need to leave its jurisdiction?

1. What, precisely, are the significant and tangible benefits of leaving the EU?2. What damage to the UK and its citizens is an acceptable price to pay for those benefits?3. Which ruling of the ECJ is most persuasive of the need to leave its jurisdiction?